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  1. Rec 4

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    An informal examination of tagging and background tagging, with a focus on sapphic pairings and fandoms. (WIP)

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    02 Feb 2026

  2. Rec 1

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    Lae'zel falls ill in Shadow-Cursed Lands, just as Shadowheart seems to bloom.

    An audio recording of Flowers and Fire by TopoftheLighthouse.

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    01 Feb 2026

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    Bless Gilraina ❤️

  3. Rec 11

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    Shadowheart’s memories are bookmarked by thresholds. A tavern door, a shuddering cathedral, a ladder to a light unknown. Minthara’s tent is no different. She knows, she knows, if she steps into this pixie ring she will awaken the parts of herself she’s so carefully locked away.

    And yet the drow's command echoes all the same.

    You will come to me, Shadowheart, when you find yourself in need of a key.

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    31 Jan 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    For the first time, the night isn’t wrapped tight around her throat. How strange to be hand in hand with the sunrise when it’s Minthara, when it’s Shar, when it’s– well.

    She’s too soppy to think right now. Instead she beds down into fine furs and feathers like a princess. Minthara shines with exertion above her– carved arms like marble in the low blue light.

    “Come here, nightwarden. I’d like a cuddle.”

  4. Rec 11

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    He comes up from the dark carrying little but his sword and the story of it.

    He carried phrases, moments; turned them over in his mind as he tried to find the meter of a true adventure story. Tried to find something in the misery that he might have read in the creased pages of the chapbooks and novels that had filled the shelf in his childhood bedroom.

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    24 Jan 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    In the morning he would choose between walking on his ankle or another day of hunger before he could resupply. The next village to the south was larger and he thought he remembered a courier post. He’d pay to send off the manuscript. He didn’t like to keep them on hand for too long; Wyll couldn’t guarantee anything was safe while it was within his grasp.

  5. Rec 7

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    The Great Gith Resistance has to start somewhere, and Lae'zel chooses one of the crèches in the Tears as her first target. But she couldn't even begin the assault without a great mind at her side.

    Or: four scenes where Minthara is overcome with her respect, love, and admiration for Lae'zel.

    Written for Femslash February 2024 for the prompt "Freedom."

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    24 Jan 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    "Words supplied by my lieutenant," Lae'zel whispered, turning her head to capture Minthara's mouth in a kiss. Their sweat mingled along their lips and tongues as Lae'zel spoke whenever both were spared a moment's reprieve. "The words that I would never have considered if not for you, my ilharess."